HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED AND WONDERED HOW YOU THINK?

 LET’S LEARN ABOUT SUBMODALATIES

When you think of the specific process of how you do anything, you’ll see it has many different factors called submodalities. These are the building blocks of how you think, feel and react to certain things. It's taken from the fantastic therapy called NLP (Neuro Linguist Programming), which is how you can reprogram your unconscious mind to empower yourself to begin to change the way you think and feel.

Learn to master your mind and negative behaviors, including creating a new healthy self-image and shifting your focus into a new healthier you.

NLP is based on the techniques created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

It’s time to start being aware of how and what you’re thinking, what you’re saying to yourself that sweeps you into the harmful thinking that then drives you to binge.

Once you begin to notice all those thoughts rattling around in your brain, then you can start to change the way you’re thinking.

When we think, there’s a pattern to our thoughts, we either:

Think in pictures

Think in words

Think in feelings

Think in tastes or smells

Most people think in both words and pictures; maybe for you, one is more dominant than the other.

If I were to ask you how you bought this book, did you skip into a book shop and make the purchase there, or did you hop onto (but not literally) your computer or phone to make the purchase?

When you think about that, there will be different elements or steps of how you found your way to the answer…

You would have had:

•    An image of you hopping or skipping to the shop to make the purchase.

•    A verbalization of where you bought it.

•    A feeling about buying it, maybe an exciting feeling?

Let me explain further what submodalities are and how they’re going to help you

Your submodalities are the representations of how you view your world. They form the basic building blocks of how you think, feel, and react to certain things; people or events. We’ll be working with submodalities throughout the book, so listen up…

Submodalities are made up of five different types; corresponding to the five senses:

Visual Submodalities (Pictures)

It’s the picture you have in your mind, which could be:

·        A movie or still picture?

·        In panorama or a framed picture?

·        In color or black and white?

·        How bright/dim is the picture?

·        Focused or blurred?

·        Associated or disassociated?

·        What’s the size of the picture?

·        Close up or far away?

·        Are you in the picture or looking at the picture?

Auditory submodalities (Things you hear)

If you hear a sound in your mind, possible characteristics include:

·        Words or sounds

·        Tone

·        Constant or intermittent

·        Loud or quiet

·        High or low pitch

·        Timbre

·        Duration

·        The direction of the voice

·        Tempo

Kinesthetic submodalities (Feelings and sensations)

This is your feelings and sensations; they may include:

• Location - where it is in the body
• Shape
• Quality
• Intensity
• Temperature - Hot or cold
• Texture – rough or smooth
• Pressure
• Constant or intermittent
• Still or moving
• Steady or intermittent
• Direction
• Breathing rate
• Size

Gustatory and Olfactory Submodalities (Taste and Smell)

·        Sweet

·        Sour

·        Aroma – strength

·        Bitter

·        Fragrance

·        How strong is the smell?

Are you still listening up? Because you’ll be zipping back to this submodalities page often as you work through some of the techniques in this book.

SO LET’S LEARN ABOUT ANCHORING

A real key to helping you to take back control of your life is with another NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) technique called anchoring. Anchoring is the connection between a trigger and a change of mood.

Your life has been affected by anchors all your life, even though you haven’t created them intentionally. For example: If someone were to smell freshly mowed lawn, that could remind them of when they were young child, a summer day, and Dad had just cut the lawn. Or when you hear a specific song, it reminds you of a past experience or person. These are NLP anchors.

So, whether the anchor is positive or negative and where you are now, you have many problematic anchors that are creating negative responses. Still, the good news is that they work instantly and don’t involve rational thinking. You could see, think, or hear about something, and then, automatically, your mood changes, whether you want it to or not. But positive anchors evoke good, pleasant feelings.

Some of the techniques throughout the course will include anchoring, which will be so powerful for you to use when you aren’t feeling so positive about yourself.